December 2010
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there ought to be an app for that
Watchquite a nice wee combo of stopmotion and computer graphics used in this german promo campaign for google streetview. and it’s good to see the perennial old “living sketchbook” idea still has legs!
there’s also a page here with some info on how it was made.
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premature felicitation
seeing as how i’ll be doing the rounds tomorrow; stuffing my face with booze and food, and unlikely to be going anywhere near the comp to upload this, you’ll have to accept my christmas greetings a bit early.
have a good one everybody and, as tiny tim would say: “gawd bless us, one and all!”
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Watchwe don’ need to show you any steenkin’ bhajis!
it’s good to find some classic movies occasionally, amongst the mountains of brain-dead dross on blinkbox
last night i unearthed one of my all-time favourite westerns “the treasure of the sierra madre”.
the only problem is that, for some unaccountable reason, every time i watch this film i find myself hankering...
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button loon
i’ve been working on my forum website makeover for most of today again. because i border on being OCD when it comes to how things look, i spent several hours designing a set of iphone style buttons, just so i could replace a couple of minor buttons on the forum interface –as the built in ones were putrid windoze style crappy gifs.
i didnae design these from scratch, but based them on an...
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bracket monkey
today i’ve been “doing my brackets”, as the missus calls it; trying to port the immensely popular *cough!* appletalker forum i run from its current unclassified newsboard [UNB] software [which has been abandoned by the developer] over to a new forum software, called simple machines forum [SMF], which should future-proof appletalker for at least the forseeable future and –even...
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cheeky chappies!
found on my whiteboard yesterday, when i went into college.
after a bit of waterboarding and ‘robust interrogation techniques’, robert and karl confessed karl confessed and dobbed in robert too.
hmmm… methinks some grades might have to be adjusted downwards!
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it's official - we rock!
it was nice to see so many students, both past and present out for our little soirée at jabez clegg last night and also nice [albeit quite blush inducing] to have so many of our former students come up to alex, griff and myself and tell us that –since they’ve moved onwards and upwards to 3rd years on degree courses at ‘proper’ universities– they’ve retrospectively begun...
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chrimbo quoffs
just to remind you all; christmas drinkies will be in the function room –or whatever the hell it’s called!– at jabez clegg on thursday evening, from 7pm ‘til 1am. tickets are a measley £2 and are available from all good tutors [and some rubbish ones].
those students wishing to show their appreciation of the fabulous teaching they have received from me during the course of the year...
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cum shot
and the award for “most risibly unsubtle attempt to use sex to sell a product” goes to…
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while my guitar gently weeps
i notice that the bookies are offering odds of 17-to-one on a beatles track being the christmas number one single.
i might well have a flutter on that, so i might!
when apple first announced the arrival of the beatles on itunes i, like most other folks, said “so what? –’the kids’ today dinnae even know who the beatles are and the people who know who the beatles are already have...
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product placement
ice-cold in alex is on dave TV at the mo’. one of my all-time top five favourite movies.
as well as being a ‘cracking good yarn’ i think the movie [made in 1958] must be one of the earliest and best examples of product placement ever. in fact, back when this movie was made, i’m not sure that product placement -as a concept– would even have existed.
unfortunately, dave TV...
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title sequence brief
just for reference purposes, here’s the playlist of the example title sequences we showed you, when introducing the unit02 brief:
clickety-poo
[whoops! - previous link was broken. this one should work. cheers xiu wei!]